In what may become the “straw” that broke the brand reputation to Sony, Corporation’s, PlayStation Network, the company announced on Wednesday that it was forced to suspend around 93,000 user accounts after discovering a significant number of unauthorized sign-in attempts. The latest suspension comes just 6 months after Sony was hit by a cyber-attack on its […]
The Obama Administration issued an executive order on Friday, October, 7, 2011, to replace safeguards that exposed thousands of classified government documents in the wake of the WikiLeaks scandal last year. Specific details on the safeguards were not posted, but the Administration stated that procedures were implemented to monitor and detect specific behavior on sensitive […]
Last week, Great Britain announced that it is “dismantling” a government program aimed at making health care records available electronically. The objective of the program was to better facilitate communications between doctors, clinics, and patients. The program, which began in 2002, was budgeted at $19 billion to implement. As Dr. David J. Brailer, national coordinator for health information technology […]
After three years of investigations, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington announced on Wednesday that they have indicted three men for allegedly committing crimes where technological and conventional methods were utilized. The trio is alleged to have use a technique called ‘wardriving’, using a vehicle to detect a business’ wireless network and gain […]
In Friday’s (September 16,2011) edition of The Wall Street Journal, Mr. John Bussey wrote an OpEd article about small to mid-sized businesses (“SMB”), and how they are opting to leverage the advantages of cloud providers. The author reports that the SMB market has become more sophisticated when it comes to choosing which provider to outsource its […]
On Friday, September 9, 2011, Stanford Hospital disclosed that over 20,000 patient records were publicly posted on a commercial Web site, which included the names of the patients, admission and release dates, and diagnosis codes. The information had been publicly available for almost one year. The New York Times reported that “[s]ince discovering the breach last […]
The Senate passed a bill on Tuesday, September, 6, 2011, that will overhaul the patent-system in the United States, and it is expected to get the signature of President Barack Obama. The change in law will reverse the centuries old practice of awarding a patent to an individual who discovers something useful and nonobvious, by making […]
With a greater reliance on the use of IT systems to support the overall mission of an organization, businesses need to understand the importance of implementing data governance protocols into its overall employment practices. Securing the accessibility of mission-critical information is just one of the major tenets to a businesses long-term viability, and unless an organization takes […]
The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) recently concluded that employers may not discipline or terminate an employee for engaging in some forms of communication on social media sites, like Facebook and Twitter. The reasoning behind this ruling is that if the employee is engaged in “protected concerted activity” whereby they are discussing terms and conditions […]
Vivek Kundra’s tenure as the Nation’s first Chief Information Officer will likely be remembered for designating much of the federal government’s IT architecture towards cloud-based services. The former CIO’s vision has recently come under scrutiny by the two most prominent agencies within the U.S. government – the Pentagon and State Department. While the main selling point for cloud-based technology is cost […]